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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: CASP Critical Appraisal Skills Programme

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

CASP Critical Appraisal Skills Programme

The required elements for the reference are:

Tool author/developer. (Year) Title of tool. Available at: URL [Accessed on date].

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment :

Critical Appraisal Skills Programme. (2018) CASP systematic review checklist. Available at:

https://casp-uk.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CASP-Systematic-Review-Checklist-2018_fillable-form.pdf [Accessed 18 April 2019].

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence

The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (2018) tool, is a generic tool for appraising the strengths and limitations of any qualitative research methodology.

Example 2 - where the author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence

A checklist was used to assess the trustworthiness, relevance and results of published papers (Critical Skills Appraisal Programme 2018).

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